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Hacker News (Oct 2018)

  1. Encrypted SNI Comes to Firefox Nightly

    322 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  2. The death of Google

    321 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  3. Well-Architected Monoliths Are Okay

    320 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  4. Cannabis is legal in Canada: What you need to know

    320 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  5. Copyright Office Adds DMCA Exemption for 'Abandoned' Online Games

    319 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  6. Ways people trying to do good accidentally do harm instead and how to avoid them

    319 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  7. Should you learn C to “learn how the computer works”?

    318 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  8. Digital Ocean Managed Databases

    318 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  9. New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub

    317 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  10. Microservices Are Something You Grow Into, Not Begin With

    316 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  11. An Innovative Phishing Style

    316 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  12. Show HN: Comprehensive Tutorials in Deep Learning Using TensorFlow

    316 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  13. New autonomous farm wants to produce food without human workers

    316 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  14. Ask HN: Over 60 = no engineering jobs?

    314 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  15. Model 3 achieves the lowest probability of injury of any car tested by NHTS

    311 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  16. Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women

    311 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  17. CSS Layout cookbook

    311 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  18. A Look at the Design of Lua

    311 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  19. Pre-Existing Immunity to CRISPR Found in 96% of People in Study

    310 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  20. Amazon Employee: We Shouldn’t Sell Facial Recognition Tech to Police

    310 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  21. Google Home (in)Security

    308 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  22. A Year in Clojure

    308 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  23. An Amateur Rap Crew Stole Surveillance Tech that Tracks Almost Every American

    308 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  24. Do the Rich Capture All the Gains from Economic Growth?

    307 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  25. Web Performance 101

    306 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  26. OpenBSD 6.4 released

    306 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  27. Boltons: A set of BSD-licensed, pure-Python utilities

    306 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  28. Python's New Package Landscape

    305 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  29. To become a software consultant, avoid letting clients pay you for code (2017)

    305 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  30. MongoDB switches up its open source license

    305 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  31. Show HN: Algojammer – an experimental Python code editor inspired by Bret Victor

    304 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  32. One Windows Kernel

    302 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  33. How I Became a Knife Steel Metallurgist

    301 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  34. Decensoring Hentai with Deep Neural Networks

    299 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  35. Quitting my job has been the best thing I've done for my career

    299 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  36. Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe?

    299 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  37. Writing system software: code comments

    298 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  38. Messenger systems compared by security, privacy, compatibility, and features

    298 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  39. Why Pencils Are Yellow (2017)

    298 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  40. American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politicians in the Middle East

    297 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  41. Show HN: Applying for jobs? Manage all your interviews in one place

    296 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  42. Zip Trees

    295 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  43. Apple Supplier List – Top 200 [pdf]

    295 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  44. Principles of Algorithmic Problem Solving (2017) [pdf]

    295 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  45. Concepts to help developers master JavaScript

    294 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  46. Perl 11

    294 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  47. H-1B: As immigration furor roils Silicon Valley, Canada smooths way for techies

    293 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  48. Not exercising worse than smoking, diabetes and heart disease study finds

    293 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  49. Facebook open-sources new suite of Linux kernel components and tools

    292 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  50. Larry Wall's Very Own Home Page

    292 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  51. Study: Artificial sweeteners toxic to digestive gut bacteria

    292 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  52. Disguised user location data collection on Huawei phone?

    290 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  53. Microsoft completes GitHub acquisition

    290 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  54. NY Man Arrested for Cutting Wires to Red Light Cameras (2016)

    289 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  55. What I Learned from porting my projects to FreeBSD

    289 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  56. Arguing against using protobuffers

    288 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  57. What is the revenue generation model for DuckDuckGo?

    287 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  58. Solving Tech Addiction Is an Underappreciated Market Opportunity

    287 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  59. Show HN: Physically Based Rendering – Online Edition

    287 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  60. IPv6 breaks the 25% barrier

    286 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  61. Show HN: SQL Trainer – Learn SQL by doing live data exercises

    285 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  62. Technology preview: Sealed sender for Signal

    284 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  63. Qt Design Studio 1.0

    284 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  64. How solid is Tim’s plan to redecentralize the web?

    284 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  65. OOP Is Dead, Long Live OOP

    284 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  66. An Introduction to GPU Programming in Julia

    283 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  67. Ask HN: What is your advice for a technical founder learning sales?

    283 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  68. Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but it's also very exciting

    282 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  69. Leaked Google briefing, admitting a “shift towards censorship”

    282 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  70. Visualizing quaternions: An explorable video series

    282 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  71. How newlines affect Linux kernel performance

    281 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  72. It doesn't have to be crazy at work

    280 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  73. Amazon's Ring Police Portal For Mass Surveillance

    279 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  74. How I Faked My Way to the Top of Paris Fashion Week [video]

    279 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  75. Why Are Enterprises So Slow?

    278 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  76. Why you can have millions of goroutines but only thousands of Java threads

    277 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  77. Building a better gov.uk, step by step

    276 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  78. The Python Unicode Mess

    276 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  79. Dropbox traffic infrastructure: Edge network

    275 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  80. Fastai for PyTorch: Fast and accurate neural nets using modern best practices

    275 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  81. Why iPhone Xs performance on JavaScript is so good

    274 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  82. Dynamicland: The Next Big Thing Is a Room

    274 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  83. Phrack Magazine (1985-2016)

    274 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  84. A single-page app is almost always worse than a multi-page app

    274 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  85. Hubble Space Telescope Is In Safe Mode After Gyro Failure

    274 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  86. List of 600 free online courses launched by 190 universities

    273 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  87. TypeScript support added to Create React App

    273 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  88. The Secretive Business of Facial-Recognition Software in Retail Stores

    273 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  89. Systemd is bad parsing

    273 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  90. Ex-Google engineer describing the company's role in China censorship

    273 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  91. GitHub: October 21 Incident Report

    273 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  92. The Google+ project and exec team

    273 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  93. Why I Bid $700 for a Stolen PSN Account

    273 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  94. Walt: JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly

    272 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  95. Recovering Emotions After 24 Years on Antidepressants

    271 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  96. Self-healing material can build itself from carbon in the air

    271 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  97. Winamp 5.8 Release – First update in 5 years

    271 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  98. PipelineDB 1.0 – High-Performance Time-Series Aggregation for PostgreSQL

    270 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  99. The D Language Front-End Merged Into GCC 9

    268 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  100. 310 Bitcoin challenge has been solved

    268 points • comment • oct 11, 2018